(Graphic.com)
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST),
in partnership with the Technical University of Munich, has constructed a
solar-powered 4x4 vehicle.The environmentally-friendly vehicle, meant to carry passengers and
goods, was inaugurated by the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, at the
51st congregation of the KNUST, Kumasi, on Saturday.
It was developed by the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and
Physics, and comes as a breakthrough as the nation searches for ways to
build a more robust automobile industry.
Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso, Vice-Chancellor of the KNUST, said the
invention was the University’s response to living up to its core mandate
of spearheading development of innovative technologies.
The solar-powered vehicle, he said, was still being tested and tried
over some period with the hope of fine-tuning it in order to bring it to
standard.
When completed it could become the first solar-powered 4x4 vehicle to be manufactured on the African continent.
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